The Personality of Shakespeare: A Venture in Psychological MethodFirst of all, as the title indicates, I am concerned with exploring a method. This method derives from the theory of personality projection. It is quantitative in part, but its operation depends, as everything in science does, upon a human observer and assessor. With regard to the personality of Shakespeare, I should like to make it plain that I have not attempted to be comprehensive and final. I do not see how we can be comprehensive and final with regard to any personality. Here, in studying Shakespeare, I have been deliberately fragmentary, limiting myself to a mere handful of questions. In particular, I have not tried to analyze the plays as artistic wholes in their entire complexity, but have only traced out a few general characteristics and a few patterns, which I have called "themes," occurring in more than one play. My analysis has focused on the dramatis personae and their interrelations. - Preface. |
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... represented by the whole collection in interaction ; and that any behavioral outcome will be a kind of compromise between the various potential roles present , just as a vector of forces is devel- oped in a physical system by the ...
... represented by the whole collection in interaction ; and that any behavioral outcome will be a kind of compromise between the various potential roles present , just as a vector of forces is devel- oped in a physical system by the ...
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... represented in humanity at large as a constant feature of its life . To be sure , the activities will differ in relative promi- nence , and there may be some gradual changes . Now , an individual may be supposed to contain within ...
... represented in humanity at large as a constant feature of its life . To be sure , the activities will differ in relative promi- nence , and there may be some gradual changes . Now , an individual may be supposed to contain within ...
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... represented by Claudius - betrayal , murder , incest - would be suppressed in the actual behavior of the author . The kind of struggle going on here is certainly the kind which might be supposed to occur between conscious principle and ...
... represented by Claudius - betrayal , murder , incest - would be suppressed in the actual behavior of the author . The kind of struggle going on here is certainly the kind which might be supposed to occur between conscious principle and ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
On Some Questions of Theory and Method | 15 |
AWEW Alls Well That Ends Well | 42 |
Copyright | |
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